Discussion1.Ohm’s law state that the voltage across a resistance is directly proportionalto the current flowing through it.2.In Ohm’s law, the resistor should be a constant value and therefore that thevoltage-current characteristic is linear.3.Since resistor is a passive element, the power supplied to the terminals isabsorbed by the resistor. Note that the charges move from the higher to thelower potential as it passes through the resistor and the energy absorbed isdissipated by the resistor in the form of heat.4.In reality, all practical resistors exhibit non-linear behaviour because theresistance of any resistor is affected by condition, such as temperature, whichare in turn linked to past and present current flow through the element(current flow causes heating)5.Kirchhoff’s current law state that the sum of the currents into a junction isequal to the sum of the currents out of that junction.6.In a parallel circuit, the current acts as a current diveder which it divide intoseveral path when entering a junction. The number of current paths is equalto the number of parallel branches. The additional amount of current areacquired when the parallel branch are added. Since, the source voltage isconstant in parallel circuit, an increase in the total current from the sourcemeans the total resistance has decreased.7. To measure the current, the ammeter is connected to the circuit by series.8.Kirchhoff’s voltage law state that the sum of all voltages around a closed pathis zero; the sum of the voltage drops equals the total source voltage.9.In a circuit, the total source voltage has a polarity opposite to the voltagedrops.10.Voltage in a series circuit acts as a voltage divider. Therefore when the totalsource voltage came across the circuit contains two different value of resistance, the voltage value in each resistance is different, since the current
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